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Not like the sun is renewable either. Everything is finite if you use enough of it. The problem is that the old "limited consumable resource dug out of the grou
by lucb1e 3y ago
Not like the sun is renewable either. Everything is finite if you use enough of it. The problem is that the old "limited consumable resource dug out of the ground" changes our natural habitat as a side effect of creating energy, assuming we continue to use it as we do today.
(By that last bit, I mean: powering EVs from coal plants with carbon capture at exhausts might be different, idk, but probably not cheaper than just not polluting in the first place.)
- gpm 3y ago"Renewable" isn't the best word for wind and solar, better would be "use-it-or-lose-it", either you harvest it or it dissipates into useless low grade heat. Using more of it doesn't deplete the supply of it. Solar energy (and thus wind assuming otherwise constant environmental conditions) is only going to get more plentiful for next 5 billion years...
- pfdietz 3y agoThe Earth becomes uninhabitable in about a billion years due to solar brightening, but your point certainly applies to far future civilizations in solar orbit.